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Kate McCann's lawyer Carlos Pinto de Abreu: ''If you were Portuguese this would be enough to put you in prison''

Recently, National Public Radio ran a story about coverage of what they call “women-in-peril” stories—that is, stories that focus on crimes against young white women, particularly those involving abduction. Jaycee Dugard and Elizabeth Smart, both kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and held captive for long periods, were the focus of intense media attention. ABC News appears to be particularly emphasizing this type of coverage; they scored an exclusive interview with Dugard and have hired Smart as a contributor; her first appearance included a discussion of Dugard’s case.

Of course, no one would deny that both Dugard and Smart underwent horrifying ordeals, and it’s not surprising that their stories drew the public’s attention. However, the media frenzy over these cases reflects a focus that has gotten a name among media critics: Missing White Woman Syndrome. That is, media coverage tends to be higher when victims are young, White, conventionally-attractive women. Research indicates that crimes with white female victims do indeed receive disproportionate coverage. For instance, in a study of local newspaper coverage of 640 homicides in Columbus, Ohio, Richard Lundman found that murders involving a white female victim were more likely to be covered and received higher profile coverage, such as front-page stories. This pattern held even when he controlled for other factors that might influence newsworthiness, such as type of weapon used, age of those involved, neighborhood, and even how uncommon the murder is in terms of the gender, race, and social class of the victim and perpetrator.

The disproportionate coverage that crimes such as the abduction of Elizabeth Smart generate can lead to distortions in our perceptions of risk. While they are shocking, the crimes perpetrated against Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard are, in fact, quite rare. And middle-class white women are at very low risk of being the victims of violent crime in general.

But exposure to news coverage of these types of crimes may increase levels of fear among white women. Researchers at Florida State University looked at how TV coverage of the sexual assault and murder of two teenage girls in Houston affected viewers’ fear of crime, gathering their data in the immediate aftermath of the media frenzy about violent crime, gang violence, and related topics. They found that the only group whose fear of crime was influenced by watching TV stories about the murders was middle-aged white women. Non-white women, and all men, despite being objectively more likely to be victimized, did not become more fearful. The researchers suggest that white women substitute media coverage for direct experience of victimization. That is, generally research indicates that a person’s prior experience with crime (whether as a victim or knowledge of someone who was) is a strong predictor of their fear of becoming a victim; if you’ve been victimized once, it makes sense that you’d be more likely to think it could happen again. But white women who watch the news see a disproportionate number of white female victims, leading to a perception that white women are in much more danger than they actually are. The message here is that media coverage has real-world implications; the TV and print media stories we see can influence our perceptions of ourselves and the world around us. And insofar as white female victims are deemed most newsworthy, media coverage can skew our perceptions of how risky our lives are and which groups are most in need of increased protection from criminal behavior.

With regard to Jaycee Dugard, whose case the mccanns quote constantly, her step father, Carl Probyn TOOK and PASSED 4 (four) lie detector tests in regards to any involvement in her diaappearance.The McCanns have never taken a lie detector test.The McCanns endlessly cite the Dugard case but i have NEVER heard them MENTION the stepfather taking, and passing, lie detector tests.You'd think they would VOLUNTEER, every day, to take a test, wouldn't you?Just so the world knows they have left no stone unturned.IMO, the McCanns have lied but those lies haven't be detected by a lie detector test, because they REFUSE to take one, or any of the super slueths at SY reviewing their case.WHY won't they take a lie detector test?

@jeanmonroe wrote:With regard to Jaycee Dugard, whose case the mccanns quote constantly, her step father, Carl Probyn TOOK and PASSED 4 (four) lie detector tests in regards to any involvement in her diaappearance.The McCanns have never taken a lie detector test.The McCanns endlessly cite the Dugard case but i have NEVER heard them MENTION the stepfather taking, and passing, lie detector tests.You'd think they would VOLUNTEER, every day, to take a test, wouldn't you?Just so the world knows they have left no stone unturned.IMO, the McCanns have lied but those lies haven't be detected by a lie detector test, because they REFUSE to take one, or any of the super slueths at SY reviewing their case.WHY won't they take a lie detector test?

The only conceivable reason is if you knew the outcome, and knew it would be unfavourable.

When the McCanns first offered to do one years ago, I reckon they expected the response to be "No, no, totally unnecessary. We believe you completely". Perhaps the answer was " Absolutely, we'll send a driver for you now, can you be ready in 10 minutes?".

Incidently, right at the beginning of this case, was it Gerry who refused to have the twins drug tested? My memory is not what it should be and it may have been an internet myth. Does anyone remember?

The time for the twins to have been tested for drugs was the night Maddie went missing. I (and others have frequently posted) would have been banging down the police department's door demanding a drug test on the twins especially as I have read that Mrs. thought that Maddie seemed to be excessively tired on being picked up from the creche. ALARM BELLS TIME surely?I cannot believe what I read at times, I just cannot.

Now I wonder why the video has been pulled? Copy right issues was the reason given but you only have to look on youtube to see any number of ITV vids. posted. Wonder why???

Will we be seeing Jeremy Kyle's uploads being removed because of copy right issues?

Yer daft apeth, try looking for a pair of Adidas good quality all terrain weatherproof pink trainers, impregnated with organic dog repellent with lifelong guarantee - not a pink carnation or even a pink shirt.

Failing that, try for a Popeye and Olive Oyl tribute double-act.

____________________“ The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made" - Groucho Marx

The 2 youtube videos are dead. Seems like Kate does not want people to see them!

Most people online that disbelieve the Mccanns are not 'trolls', just normal forum people who discuss the case. Yes their not held in high regard, and that is their own doing, they created this situation, nobody else.

Nobody is contacting them directly, so nobody is trolling, commenting on a forum is not trolling, trolling needs to be direct to a person, not via proxy!Also, those that disbelieve the Mccanns feel for the twins, nobody wants to see the twins suffer any more than they have already.

The only way the twins would see anything negative about Kate & Gerry is to come on specific Mccann forums, and they're years off coming onto adult forums, and by then hopefully they would have read the files and worked it out for themselves.

As already mentioned, Kate has to be in the thick of the forums/twitter/facebook to know that people are writing about them, but her presence has already been noted, so it's no big secret. They will never contain free speech, they think they can shut people down for having opinions, and they think they can get their minions to distort public perceptions, but their efforts are wasted.

I also do not believe someone threatened to 'gun her down' and only get a warning! What a load of rubbish! If you give a threat to kill you go to jail, it's a very serious offence, and not one that would be handled with just a 'warning'.

This is just spin/lies from team Mccann, they're desperate to stop people discussing the case, they realise that the internet is a big threat to them, and so they invent all this 'troll' nonsense to try and combat it, but they will never stop free speech on the internet, the internet is too big for them to conquer!

Yer daft apeth, try looking for a pair of Adidas good quality all terrain weatherproof pink trainers, impregnated with organic dog repellent with lifelong guarantee - not a pink carnation or even a pink shirt.

Failing that, try for a Popeye and Olive Oyl tribute double-act.

..... or maybe a pair of those Adidas Achilles-healing ultra-tennis shoes. You know, those ones which take a ruptured Achilles tendon in their stride, and just heal it as you play.

I've been hunting for a pair of those babies since 2007. Just can't find any.

One of my mates said Adidas only made one pair of them, and sold them in a sports shop somewhere in Leicestershire. I wonder who bought them?

Yer daft apeth, try looking for a pair of Adidas good quality all terrain weatherproof pink trainers, impregnated with organic dog repellent with lifelong guarantee - not a pink carnation or even a pink shirt.

Failing that, try for a Popeye and Olive Oyl tribute double-act.

..... or maybe a pair of those Adidas Achilles-healing ultra-tennis shoes. You know, those ones which take a ruptured Achilles tendon in their stride, and just heal it as you play.

I've been hunting for a pair of those babies since 2007. Just can't find any.

One of my mates said Adidas only made one pair of them, and sold them in a sports shop somewhere in Leicestershire. I wonder who bought them?

Ha! Ha! Ha! Even better. As a pair they could enter the three-legged race.

____________________“ The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made" - Groucho Marx

Blood and cadaver alerts in the McCanns apartment & hire car are ignored by UK Government & Police as they continue to spend millions of pounds investigating the non-existent abduction.

Dr Gonçalo Amaral, retired PJ Coordinator: "The English can always present the conclusions to which they themselves arrived in 2007. Because they know, they have the evidence of what happened, they don't need to investigate anything. All this is now a mere show off. When MI5 opens their files, then we will know the truth."

Ex-Met DCI Colin Sutton, who had been to Praia da Luz several times for various newspapers: "The most likely hypothesis is that Madeleine was stolen to order by slave traders or people traffickers and smuggled into Africa for a rich family who wanted a white child. She would have taken her beloved toy 'cuddlecat' if she had wandered out of the apartment."

Ex-MET DCI Andy Redwood had a "revelation moment" on BBC1's Crimewatch on 14th October 2013 when he announced that Operation Grange had eliminated the Tanner sighting - which opened up the 'window of opportunity', in accordance with their remit, to allow the fake abduction to happen.

Professor Gerry McCann called for an example to be made of 'trolls'. SKY News reporter Martin Brunt doorstepped Brenda Leyland on 2 October 2014 after she was singled out from a Dossier handed in to Police by McCann supporters. She was then found dead in a Leicester hotel room. Brenda paid the price.